Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

The prince gasped in his heart, no wonder the original body committed suicide in his previous life!

The sage doesn't want to be called a son-killer, so he wants to imprison the second prince for a lifetime like this?That would be better than death.But looking at the cruelty and viciousness of the second prince's actions, he deserves to be imprisoned for the rest of his life.

Now that the second prince was mentioned, the prince wanted to take this opportunity to ask the sage about some unavoidable matters, so as to get accurate ideas, so that he could do things.You know, the palace affairs are managed by the princess.Next year the second prince will marry Wu's daughter, and the two side concubines that the sage originally pointed out to the second prince will be handled by the House of Internal Affairs managed by the crown princess.

"Father, what about the two side concubines who were originally pointed out to the second brother?"

"Look at what their own fathers and grandparents mean. They are reluctant to part with their daughters. If they are responsible and dare to speak to me, the marriage will be dissolved. Otherwise, they will be carried to Huangzhuang to get married together with Wu's daughter."

"Okay, when I go back, I will tell Shi about the emperor's arrangement. Let the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrange it earlier and prepare a few more Huangzhuang, so that the father can choose a suitable one for the second brother to live in in the future."

The father and son put aside this topic and read the following memorial together.

The prince didn't ask the sage what the Wu family did.Since the sage said that he did not fully investigate, it means that the sage is still investigating.

Father and son work together to deal with the swarms of papers that have been pouring in during the past two days.When the prince saw the brochure from the Ministry of Industry, he scanned it briefly and became interested. It was about the hydraulic spinning wheel.

"Father, look at this," the prince leaned over, and the saint also leaned over, looking at the prince's hand.

The prince's voice clearly showed a tendency to be eager to try.

"The Ministry of Industry really has capable people. If water power can be used for spinning and weaving, it will really save a lot of manpower and time."

"Not right. Rural women, in their spare time, spin and weave cloth for their own use, and also to fill their households. If this is water-powered weaving, it may squeeze the space for poor families to add some pocket money."

The prince was blocked by the words of the sage, and only then did he realize that the sage's thoughts are naturally still in the stage of feudal society, small-scale peasant economy, and self-sufficiency. How can I persuade him to start the social division of labor and cooperation, and the process of industrialized social production Woolen cloth?

The prince put down the booklet, and tentatively said, "Father, weaving cloth with water power is the same as punching the gun barrel with water power some time ago. It is not only fast, but also good. It can save a lot of manpower! If we weave cloth with water power, If ten peasant women can earn money in a day, then these peasant women can raise chickens and pigs. That is also the way to earn money.”

The saint patted his son on the shoulder, "Chengxian, don't underestimate raising chickens and pigs. Chickens and pigs don't have food to feed them, and they don't lay eggs and don't grow meat. The land produces so much food, that's it. Only when the weather is good for a few years can I stockpile military supplies. Once there is a famine, people will not have enough to eat, so why raise chickens and pigs to make money."

Speech, the prince realized the distance between himself and the sage's thoughts, it was Mars that had arrived on the earth.

He took out a piece of paper and talked while drawing on it.

"Father, raising chickens and pigs consumes food. But chicken manure and pig manure can be used as fertilizer, which can increase the fertility of the land and increase food production. Moreover, if people eat only food, they will eat more. Assuming that you need to eat a catty a day, if you have eggs and add some meat to fill in, you won’t eat a catty of grain a day. Maybe nine taels of grain is enough.”

The wife looked at the saint's face and saw that he had listened, and then said: "If there are enough meat and eggs, and the woman eats well, the children born will be strong and grow well. The number of premature deaths will be greatly reduced. .”

The prince seized the sage's desire to increase his number and continued to attack.

"Father, if there are five adults in a family, if each adult eats one tael less food every day, it will be enough to feed one more baby girl. If the number of drowned baby girls is reduced, then after 20 years, there will be more and more babies. opportunity for the population."

Usually, the drowned baby girls were born when they were just born.If the family considers that the adults can feed the baby girl by eating less, most families will not drown the baby.After all, girls can work when they are raised to about 5 years old, and they can be exchanged for bride price when they are raised.

The sage looked at the cycle drawn by the prince, "It makes sense. Even these pork and eggs have to be bought by someone. They are all poor and have no living money. Farmers' eggs and pork can't be exchanged for living money to buy salt, etc. Daily use."

The prince drew a line from the circle of chickens and pigs to the military camp, "Soldiers who eat meat are stronger than those who eat vegetarian food. If soldiers eat more meat, they will eat less food, and the pressure on the army's food reserves will be reduced a little. There will be room for taxes. And the eggs can be salted, boiled, and shipped to the barracks.”

The prince thought of the current road and wanted to transport the eggs, but before they reached the barracks, they would all be bumped and broken.

"Salt is also very expensive." The sage pointed out that it is not feasible for the prince to pickle eggs.

The prince blurted out, "Salt merchants are as rich as a country, and salt is expensive."

"Cheng Xian, the salt tax accounts for more than one-third of the tax revenue."

The sage speaks earnestly, and the son has good ideas, but he is still too young to grasp the importance of the salt tax.Salt and iron are the lifeblood of the imperial court and cannot be relaxed.

The prince sighed, this is where the age gap and ideological gap lie. For the sake of vested interests such as salt tax, the economic model is fixed, the more fixed the more dead, and finally left behind by the times.

Like salt, it really shouldn't be so expensive.The time has come for a shift in boiling salt technology.

The prince flicked his fingers, let those fingers who had been writing for a long time feel comfortable, and let go of the salt-making technology first.

"Father, although the imperial court gets a lot of salt tax, the major salt merchants also get a lot. It's all the people's fat and people's anointing. Should we revitalize this circle, and how should we revitalize it?" On those circles, there was a void, "Father, look at what your son said, move a little, live a game."

In fact, what the prince was talking about was the simplest low-level operation to revitalize the economy.Only with a mobile economy can development be possible.Breaking through from the inside by yourself now is thousands or ten thousand times better than breaking in from the outside in the future and only being forced to change.

Then the sage held the booklet from the Ministry of Industry in one hand and the circle sketches drawn by the prince in the other, frowning in thought.On the side of the prince, he quickly approved all the papers he could approve.I scribbled through the contents of the remaining ten or so books. I had a rough idea in my mind. I stood up, stretched my neck, stretched my body, and called out to Wei Jiu, who was pretending to be a wallflower.

"Wei Jiu, what time is it?"

"Hey, my prince, I finally waited for you to look up. It's almost the hour of You, so how about setting the meal?"

"Put it on."

A waiter came in with a food box.Because both the saint and the prince are fasting, they are all vegetarian.A court lady came over with water for washing hands, the prince walked over and washed his hands carefully, there were faint ink marks in the basin.

The saint was startled by the conversation between the prince and Wei Jiu. He raised his head from his contemplation. What the prince said to him seemed to open another window. economically stable model.He thought about it for a long time, and felt that there were still many things in it, which he hadn't studied thoroughly and didn't want to understand.

The prince knew what he said, which caused a great shock to the saint.He no longer added anything, let the sage slowly read the details, the sage himself realized it, and it is more effective than talking about himself.

After the sage washed his hands, the father and son sat opposite each other and had a meal.After the meal, the father and son went for a stroll and went to the East Palace to see the little suckling pig.

It was almost dark, Wei Jiurang followed the saint and the prince's servants, and lit the palace lanterns.A string of lanterns, in the silent night, in the deep palace, moves like a winding snake.

"Chengxian, what you said in the afternoon, I've thought about it over and over again. I should open this closed chain to revitalize the current situation. But I should choose a few places first, try it out, and see what it can become if I open it. It would be a bit inappropriate to promote it hastily and comprehensively. You have to know that if our father and son do not expect anything, it may be a disaster for the people below."

Ha, is this an experimental special economic zone?

"Father Huang is right. Choose a few counties to try first, and it will be safe. After the trial, you can also make a model for the surrounding areas and other areas, and set a demonstration. The first few counties are selected as a wayfinding gone."

The saint shook his head, "There are too many people involved in a few counties. Let's choose a few villages."

Only a few villages to choose?The prince looks like he was struck by lightning.

The sample size is too small to be statistically significant.But the statistical significance of these words cannot be explained to the saint.

"Father, if the number of people participating is too small, it will be easily affected by human factors. Look, do you choose a few medium-sized counties and towns, such as those close to the canal, or those close to the capital, that can weave cloth by water? Otherwise, let the ministers of the cabinet also serve as staff? They all have experience in states and counties, and with more experience, they may have better suggestions."

Seeing the prince's insistence, the sage said with a smile: "Okay, okay, let the cabinet discuss it tomorrow. But you weave so much cloth, who will sell it, and who will you sell it to? Have you ever thought about it?"

"Father, I said before that in the south, three crops can be harvested a year. The court can exchange cloth for grain. If the three crops can be harvested, there will be no drought or flood in the future. The imported products of Thirteen Lines sell very well in the capital. These cloths are sold to those places just like tea and silk. Erchen thought, we should also have a boat to see those that can make exquisite and accurate clocks What kind of place is it like. What kind of people are those places that can manufacture rifles and cannons that are better than our red cannons. Father, they can make clocks, gun dealers Come, sell tea, silk, etc. My son is worried, if one day their soldiers come by boat with such guns, how can the soldiers of the imperial court, those flesh and blood, resist it!"